From: Michael Novick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 11:22 PM 1/28/99 -0800, Mike Ruppert wrote: > The Christopher Commission, charged with >finding the causes of the LA 1992 LA riot/insurrection found that one of the >primary causes was crack cocaine. The LA riots remain, to this day, the >largest domestic insurrection since the civil war. Just a minor quibble with this otherwise well-documented piece. The Christopher Commission was convened as a compromise between Bradley and Gates, who each appointed some of the members, to deal with the community outrage and unrelenting pressure to get rid of Gates after the beating of Rodney King, and well before the rebellion. In fact, it can be argued that the Commission (an elite instrument -- Christopher himself served on McCone's Commission after Watts, signed off on the use of Army intelligence operations inside the US against anti-war protestors, and coordinated with Cyrus Vance the use of the US military domestically during the rebellions after King was assassinated; see my book White Lies White Power for greater detail) can be handed a lot of responsibility for the subsequent rebellion because they gave Gates a long lease on life by commending him and recommending his eventual retirement (which didn't come until after the rebellion). Because people who should've known better in the SCLC and the ACLU got on the Christopher Commission bandwagon, the grassroots movement to hold the LAPD immediately accountable, and to conduct a thorough house-cleaning up to the highest levels, was allowed to die on the vine. The effort for effective community control of police was sacrificed to an elite plan for community oriented policing (a whole different kettle of fish, described by its police advocates as "the domestic equivalent of psychological operations in the military.") The predictable result, after the Simi Valley acquittals and the slap on the wrist for Korean grocer Soon Ja Du in the Latasha Harlins killing, was that masses of people took matters in their own hands, recognizing that the political-corporate elites and their liberal-politico lapdogs cared nothing for their interests. There was no commission after the 1992 rebellion to do any phony breast-beating or analysis of how future rebellions could be avoided through social programs (as occurred after the 60's rebellions). Instead, William Webster of FBI/CIA was quickly drafted to do an analysis of how the police and national guard could be beefed up and brought into play more quickly and effectively, and how the various repressive agencies could share intelligence and strategic planning. Politics is war by other means, to turn an old phrase on its head; and the chemical warfare that CIA has waged against people in the US (via heroin and cocaine) segues quite naturally into other forms of low intensity counter insurgency or into street warfare when necessary. Why do you think the Marines have been practicing in the streets of Baltimore and Chicago, and the Navy wants to do amphibious operations in San Francisco? You know I have been a critic of racist politics in the 'unorganized militias,' but I am no more sanguine about the organized militia, the National Guard, under the command of Pete Wilson or Gray Davis (or Bill Clinton's proposed 'commander-in-chief for domestic operations in the continental United States' (!!). Remember when that guy highjacked the National Guard tank in San Diego a few years ago, and everybody tsked-tsked about lax security at the tank depots? Strange that there were no complaints, or even comments, in the media about why the national guard needs tanks in San Diego in the first place. Who do people think national guard tanks, in armories in San Diego, L.A., San Francisco, etc, are aimed at? The correction about Christopher aside, congratulations, Mike, on your report, which draws conclusions that I know you resisted for a long time, and that Gary Webb won't draw himself, I think because he is focused too narrowly on the particular set of players and pieces of information that comprise his story. (Don't get me started on Christopher, but he was also apparently involved under Carter with grooming Khomeini to take power while the Shah was teetering and threatened by authentic revolutionary forces in Iran; his 'service' in L.A. was the mayonnaise in a sandwich of crimes under Johnson, Carter and subsequently Clinton). In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. !Crack the CIA! Coalition L.A. 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